Mcveighs motivations where driven by his own personal

McVeigh’s motivations where driven by his own personal beliefs that the Unites States
conducted the raids on Waco in an over powering manor. He wanted to show the government that
they are just as vulnerable as everyone else in the U.S. is
He was not on the radar of the FBI because he had not shown any intentions of
committing any kind of terrorist acts. In fact, McVeigh was a decorated Army veteran who
served in the Gulf War and earned a Bronze Star for combat Valor he never was on the radar of
the FBI (Wenzel, 2019). It was not until his arrest and interviews on the reasons behind his

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doings. They learned of his extremist ideologies and his anger over Waco so there was no way
for anyone to know what his intentions where especially the FBI and the local authorities.
From your reading, How Government Agencies Fight Terrorism (2017), briefly discuss
which federal agencies are most directly responsible for ensuring that such a domestic terrorism
attack does not occur in the future.
The government has five primary agencies that are directly responsible for ensuring that
domestic terrorism attacks do not occur. They are the Department of Homeland Security (DHS),
the U.S State Department, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the National Counterterrorism
Center (NCTC), and the U.S. Department of Treasury (ELearners website). DHS is always
working on ways to improve on the way the conduct their business when it comes to terrorism.
This will help ensure that their partners, stakeholders, and senior leaders receive their
intelligence in order to make decisions. A critical mission of the DHS is to make sure that the